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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Toolbars
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () uai ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-11-09 18:07:25
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Hi!

IMO, one of the biggest usability quirks of KDE is the toolbar layout of 
most apps. Consider, for example, Konqueror. It's default toolbar contains 
way too many icons (most of which are never used by average users), all of 
these being incredibly small.

Most users assume toolbars contain quick links to the most used 
functionallity of an app. Right now, most of our apps contain much more 
options than needed, and, because of default settings, they aren't really 
"quick links", as it's difficult to find and click them.

Based on Fitt's Law, I believe the better approach is using larger icons as 
default (32x32), with text at the bottom. Enabling this at KDE right now, 
however, will bring you more problems than solutions, since some text 
labels are incredibly long (and translations don't help, either), and most 
buttons end up hidden because of lack of space.

My proposal here is to discuss ways by which toolbars can get better, and 
implement these after the release of KDE 3.2 (It is madness to try to do 
that for 3.2, IMO).

Comments?

-- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@uai.com.br

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